The Fear of the Unknown

Yes, of course, of course, this fear is very primal. It is the fear of death. It is the fear of the unknown, the great unknown. And we must allow that wobbliness, it will come just like on the edge of the cliff. You will experience it like that, maybe worse, it doesn’t have to be but it’s very common. But you are not… the fear that is completely unfounded of course and but yet is a deep primal part of our human conditioning. It is unfounded because it is you are just coming closer to your Self. How could you be that scary to your own Self? [Smile] But it can feel like that because it is empty of any projections that you may have about your Self. Empty of all the defences that we have built for ourselves. We built so many defences against life. We built so many defences against ourselves but to come to this nakedness, openness, defenceless-ness, it can feel scary it’s true. But there is nothing to fear really. So start …not fearing the fear, otherwise it becomes a vicious circle. You start fearing that (conceptually) ‘I hope the fear does not come’ and that conceptual barrier is much more than just the shakiness in itself. Nothing will go expect that which is false. But it is true that if you want to take some falsity along with you, like many times is say that ‘I want to carry this ‘monkey me’ in our backpack behind us in our back just quietly, let me sneak in something that I… my favourite part of me’ [Smiles]

For the Truth what would be unwilling to give up on?

Exactly. What are you insistent on being right about, that is all that gets in the way. And most don’t even realize that that is what spirituality or Satsang is about. Most come to Satsang to become more and more right about things. [Smile]